Antigraft judges complete training

JAKARTA: Nine non-career judges for the anticorruption court completed a 50-day training course on Monday that was jointly organized by the Partnership for Governance Reform, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Bagir Manan said the anticorruption court would start hearing cases in December after all the career judges had finished their training at the end of this month.

As part of their training courses, the judges are also required to attend religion classes.

Sozabura Kawata, the JICA project adviser, asked the judges to work hard as rampant corruption had resulted in many Japanese investors leaving the country. Currently, only some 8,000 Japanese investors are active in the country compared to 30,000 several years ago. -- JP